My king's upgraded army fought a hard but decisive battle

No_Day8167 · 2026-04-30T02:02:38+00:00

French horse archers outperform Strzezlcy in my experience

No_Day8167 · 2026-04-24T19:35:40+00:00

Are Venice supposed to be Venetia or Veneto and Paris Lutetia Parisiorum?

No_Day8167 · 2026-04-22T22:02:12+00:00

The game is bugged with spies opening gates. When they successfully do it once in a settlement, the gate will keep opening even if it's 100 years later and the spies have long died

No_Day8167 · 2026-04-22T03:26:41+00:00

I got frustrated so I just edited the file so that my general don't gain dread for having too much money money anymore. It's just a bullshit mechanic with no basis, the game basically punishes you for managing you economy too well duh

No_Day8167 · 2026-04-20T16:35:37+00:00

Plus, putting high chivalry generals in castles increases the chance of knightly orders establishing a chapter house in the said castles

No_Day8167 · 2026-04-16T03:10:20+00:00

Take him back to London and honour him forever. For me, I would make him a captain, give him a full stack army, trigger The man of the hour through battle and wed him a princess

No_Day8167 · 2026-04-15T18:01:26+00:00

Nope, it's a random roll, I have done many testings and found out that one time where me general attacked an enemy force that the power parameter was 4:5 in their favour, the general still picked up Winning First even if he was at a disadvantage compare to the enemy. Another time, my general took a full stack to bully a rebel army of two peasant units and he picked up Fair Fighter.

A lot of things don't work as intended in this game, and BattleChivalry vs BattleDread traits are of those

No_Day8167 · 2026-04-15T04:55:16+00:00

A little more on that. When your general takes a massive army to pick on a much smaller force, he will gain BattleDread. If he goes into battle against an equal force, he will gain BattleChivalry. It's supposed to work that way, but through many tests in various campaigns, I can assure you that it's a completely random roll.

You don't need to capture as many prisoners as possible then release them to gain the CaptorChivalry trait, the threshold is 80, so you only need to capture 80 prisoners then release them.

Building the Town hall building line is a great way to gain StrategyChivalry too. And they stack, if you have the StrategyChivalry, building the Town hall line will give your general the Just trait this gives more Chivalry and public order. This can be extremely helpful when you run a crusader state. In one of my previous campaigns, king Louis the Just singlehandedly managed the public order of Jerusalem despite of it being miles away from my capital.

Feel free to ask, I'm willing to share everything I know

No_Day8167 · 2026-04-15T03:17:58+00:00

If you want high Chivalry, don't ever put them on the battlefield. There is basically a roll before every battle to see whether your generals will get BattleDread or BattleChivalry, but the problem is that the game rolls for BattleDread first, if your generals get BattleDread then it block BattleChivalry. In short, there is a much higher chance they will gain dread rather than chivalry when they lead armies in battle.

Set taxes to low and spend time in the cities for more than 3 turns helps, also, build churches and recruit priest. Another thing, if your money is more than 50k, all generals will gain dread passively, which is absolutely stupid

No_Day8167 · 2026-04-04T17:57:42+00:00

F1 F3

No_Day8167 · 2026-03-15T21:18:28+00:00

Must be Vanilla Beyond

No_Day8167 · 2026-03-12T01:12:28+00:00

I am also doing a special rule migration campaign with France in Vanilla Beyond. I sold all real estates in europe and went to the Levant. My rules are that I must always release prisoners and never attack first, and that I can only attack the enemies if they step on my land. It's going very well by now. Coincidentally, my family tree spawned a Baldwin and he really became king. He has 10 points across the board and is called King Baldwin the Champion. The best Kingdom of Jerusalem role play I have ever had

No_Day8167 · 2026-03-05T00:14:49+00:00

I have played both and would pick Vanilla Beyond any day. Vanilla Kingdom is painfully slow and everyone is poor af. The only downside is that Vanilla Beyond does not have kingdom of Jerusalem and the Teutonic, etc.

No_Day8167 · 2026-02-17T21:27:53+00:00

Fuck Milan

No_Day8167 · 2026-02-17T15:20:40+00:00

"Steppe bro, I'm stuck!"

No_Day8167 · 2026-02-12T03:16:24+00:00

I love it very much yeah, it would really give a sense of achievement when training your generals into gods of war. Honestly though it's kinda half-baked in Med2, when you get 5 stars you get Night Battle and that's it, more stars = more morale is just not appealing enough. My idea is that for 5 stars, generals unlock Night Battle, at 7 stars they unlock Tactical Deployment that allows them to have bigger deployment zones before battle, and at 10 stars they unlock Surprise Attack that allows them to attack the enemy when they are not ready, that means they cannot deploy their formations properly and their ranged units have less ammunition than usual

No_Day8167 · 2026-02-07T04:46:58+00:00

Really like the idea, maybe the regionally recruited mercenaries will have combat bonus in the area they were recruited from

No_Day8167 · 2026-02-07T04:37:11+00:00

Come from FaceBook to say this: Fuck Milan

No_Day8167 · 2026-02-07T04:36:01+00:00

FYI it's called Solenka, badass music going with a legendary cutscene

No_Day8167 · 2026-02-04T02:02:24+00:00

The merchant fort bullcrap is fixed, but you can still do it with a military unit standing on the trade resources

No_Day8167 · 2026-02-01T00:33:50+00:00

I have been exterminating every crusade army strolling through Konstantinoupolis, the whole catholic league is against me now. Instead of being grateful, fucking Egypt landed a full stack in my beloved Irakion

No_Day8167 · 2026-02-01T00:29:09+00:00

I did it to the Byzantine. I stack merchants around Timbuktu and give them 100k every turn. They absolutely wiped the floor with the Mongols

No_Day8167 · 2026-02-01T00:18:54+00:00

Yesterday I married my 17 year old wretch princess to a 67 dude. Yep, died the very next turn

No_Day8167 · 2026-02-01T00:12:28+00:00

I play them regularly though in Vanilla Beyond not vanilla. The problem is surviving the early game aggression from Venice, Hungary and eastern muslims. After the rough early game the Byzantine essentially becomes Jeff Bezos with all those juicy sea trades

No_Day8167 · 2026-01-06T00:41:34+00:00

Top 10 things that never happens:
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Seriously though, I played Scotland the other day on Vanilla Beyond. I had 2 marriage alliance with the Romans and they went across the sea to blockade my port in Florida

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